What about the asshole roommates who flip out when your shoes are neatly placed with the toe facing opposite to theirs. What about the asshole roommates who insist that the ENTIRE (walls and all) bathroom be scrubed 3 times a week when you’ve already vacuumed the whole place the day before. What about the asshole roommates who flip out when there’s one glass in the sink (why fill it up and waste water and soap for one glass?). What about roommates who are so easily woken up that lightly shutting your door at 3am after using the bathroom is cause for intervention the next day. What if people, this was all the same person who can well afford his own place, and you’re stuck in a lease with them. What do you do? NOTHING can convince him that he’s in the complete wrong, and he thinks that if you’re not like him, that you are immoral. Oh, and what if this moron used to play daddy to you to try to impress your sister. You tell me what you’d do. —Unacted Thoughts
This article appears in May 24-30, 2012.
Kick him in the pants, man. Seriously. Nod thoughtfully through his next rant, thank him when he is done and when he turns around, you kick him in the pants.
Eat cheap-ass burritos morning, noon & night and lather his BVDs with Absorbine Jr.
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Also, start an internet rumour campaign that he’s so deep in the closet he’s finding next years Xmas presents.
Hope that he never succeeds in impressing your sister. He sounds like the husband from that movie “Sleeping With the Enemy”! Why are you putting up with it??
Sounds like OCD. It’s not going to get any better….move.
Reminds me of my roommate misadventure, Made me clean the entire apartment when I wasn’t able to use the living room, kitchen etc. Just had my room and the downstairs bathroom. They imposed a $50 fine if a toilet paper roll was left empty in the downstairs bathroom they never used. It was hellish.
Say “Hi” to Sheldon Cooper for me.
Sounds like you want out of the lease, so if I were you, I’d do whatever I wanted, however I wanted, whenever I wanted and tell roomate to f—-off if they complained. You are paying half of the rent, I assume, so do what you want. If they don’t like it, they will be happy to let you off the lease and find themselves a new room mate!
seems to me o.p., you are nothing short of a nit picker, wake the fuck up.
Agripo: you sound like a pussy if you let your roommate get away with that shit. ‘Made’ you clean the house when you couldnt use it? Who the hell complies with that?
If being pissed about being required to scrub the entire bathroom three times a week is nit-picking, I must not have learned the meaning of that phrase properly.
I feel for you OP, I’ve had my fair share of crappy roommates, but never an OCD or borderline OCD case. I almost feel like that would piss me off more than the messy ones because I’d feel like I was being constantly monitored for transgressions. Maybe you need to just accept that you will never be “perfect” in their eyes and just enjoy doing whatever the hell you want (within reason)…if you are prepared to deal with the agitation this will surely cause. Just go on ahead and neatly place your shoes the wrong way all badass-like. Lol
I find, once you just accept that you hate this person and they are the ones being unreasonable, fucking with them becomes much more enjoyable.
Well it could be worse. Instead of have Felix Unger for a roommate, you could have gotten Oscar Madison and have 6 month old food rotting and smelling through the place along with unwashed laundry.
they had a really nice apartment
OP and Agripo, what the Hell is the matter with you? Do you not pay your portion of the rent? How in the world can these uptight, OC nitwits make you do anything? He doesn’t have to believe he’s wrong, he has to believe in boundries and he’s gone way past your’s. You live your life and if they don’t like it, tell them they can take their face masks and hand sanitizers and shove it up up their ass.
Get new room mates.
I would find someone to take over my half of the lease and get the heck outta there.
I think the topic of OCD needs to be addressed here, because people just toss that label out willy nilly and have no concept what it’s like to have the disorder. Those with OCD know LOGICALLY that what they’re doing is ridiculous, but caving into the compulsions is better than the anxiety that goes along with not. The scenarios that go through your head can be so terrifying that it’s just easier to give in.
That being said, there are MANY successful treatments for OCD — be it medication or cognitive behavioural therapy…. so there’s no excuse to expect anyone to put up with your shit. Understanding is key by individuals, but I refuse to coddle those with OCD or other anxiety disorders who sit on their arses and cry ‘poor me’ and use their disorders as crutches or excuses or reasons to get their own way. I’ll give you all the leeway in the world if you’re working on getting help or whatever, but otherwise, you can suck it.
If your roommate has OCD, OB, than perhaps some conversation and dialogue about it might help. If he/she is unwilling to do anything about it and make an attempt to be reasonable, than pull your drawers down, spread your cheeks and tell her to lick your brown hole.